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Samohi hoopsters named to CIF-SS team

BY DANIEL ARCHULETA Managing Editor

SAMOHI Santa Monica High School’s embarrassment of basketball riches continues to pour in.

The California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section released its All-Division 1A teams Monday and Samohi Vikings are well represented on both the girls and boys squads.

Thea Lemberger was named CIF-SS Division 1A player of year. Marty Verdugo, the girls coach, was named coach of the year.

Also on the girls side, juniors Moriah Faulk and Kristina Johnson made the first team.

The boys side has Solomon Singer and Corey Walker on the All-CIF-SS Division 1A first team. James Montgomery made the secSEE ROUNDUP PAGE 6

Half-marathon would raise money for school athletics

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BY NICK TABOREK Daily Press Staff Writer

CITY HALL Following a successful Los Angeles Marathon that ended in Downtown Santa Monica for the first time on March 21, officials here are continuing to hold talks with organizers who hope to give Santa Monica a race all its own.

The proposed event would be shorter, but its 13-mile course would be entirely within Santa Monica and would exclusively benefit the Santa Monica-Malibu Education Foundation, said Laurence Cohen, the proposed event’s main organizer. Funds raised by sponsored runners would go toward creating an endowment to fund athletic programs at local schools.

There’s no approved route for the race, but Cohen said he hopes to design a Santa Monica-centric half marathon course that sends runners down the Third Street Promenade.

“The idea is that the course would include all the iconic elements of Santa Monica,” he said.

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Brandon Wise brandonw@smdp.com Volunteers Susan Chalfant (right) and Todd Rushworth act in a Santa Monica Police Department bike theft awareness video at Back on the Beach Cafe on Monday afternoon. With over a million bikes stolen every year nationwide, the SMDP reminds residents to purchase a hardened-steel lock and use it every time you park your bike. Also, keep a sales receipt with the serial number of your bike just in case it is stolen.

If it is, file a police report. Also, make sure to register your bike with City Hall for a $3 fee.

Market to get ‘dragnet’ barriers

BY NICK TABOREK Daily Press Staff Writer

DOWNTOWN Nearly seven years after an 86year-old man killed 10 people and injured 63 more by driving his car through a crowded Farmers’ Market in Downtown, City Hall officials are proposing a new road blockade system they say will make the markets safer.

The new proposal calls for City Hall to purchase 12 “Dragnet Vehicle Arresting Barriers” — reinforced nets capable of stopping cars without causing dangerous collisions — that would be used to block off road-

ways that lead to the pedestrian-only market.

The barriers are commonly used to shield construction workers from vehicle traffic but would be a novel innovation for an outdoor market, said Jennifer Taylor, a senior development analyst in City Hall’s Economic Development Department.

“Santa Monica will have the safest Farmers’ Market in the whole U.S., if not the world, with these dragnets,” Taylor said. “It’s by far the best type of system that keeps everyone safe without causing any kind of harm.”

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Each market entrance would be fortified with two dragnets, Taylor said, so that a smaller “clear zone” behind the nets would be needed for them to potentially stop a vehicle. She said the dragnets would not reduce the amount of space available at the markets or cause the markets to admit fewer vendors.

The barriers, Taylor said, can be covered with signs or public art, so they wouldn’t stand out as unattractive fortifications.

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CORRECTION In the March 29, 2010 edition, the story titled “Tourism remains strong locally” should have identified Kim Baker as the Santa Monica Convention and Visitors Bureau’s director of marketing.

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Producer claims Fawcett money being misused ANTHONY MCCARTNEY AP Entertainment Writer

LOS ANGELES A producer being sued by Farrah Fawcett’s estate has fired back in a court filing by claiming the late actress’ money is being mishandled.

The trustee of Fawcett’s estate has withheld money from some of the actress’ beneficiaries, including her father, according to a filing by producer Craig Nevius. The document filed last week in Santa Monica is in response to a lawsuit filed by a Fawcett’s estate against him in January.

Nevius, a one-time Fawcett confidante, also claims the lawsuit against him filed by trustee Richard B. Francis is a misuse of the actress’ money.

The filing takes numerous swipes at Fawcett’s longtime companion, actor Ryan O’Neal, and friend Alana Stewart. Both were constant figures in Fawcett’s final months and worked on the documentary “Farrah’s Story,” which aired on NBC. Nevius sued O’Neal, Stewart and Francis over the documentary last year, claiming it didn’t adhere to Fawcett’s wishes and improperly cut him out of the process. His

recent filing repeats an allegation that O’Neal threatened him in a phone conversation.

The filing claims Stewart misused her relationship with Fawcett to sell a book.

“I’ve read Mr. Nevius’ response to our complaint which I think contains spurious and outrageous allegations,” said Howard Weitzman, who represents Fawcett’s estate and O’Neal, Stewart and Francis. “I’m confident the truth will all come out during the course of the litigation.”

Attorneys for Fawcett’s estate claimed in their lawsuit that Nevius botched a

first edit of the documentary and “embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars” from the actress’ company.

Nevius first teamed up with the former “Charlie’s Angels” star on a reality television series called “Chasing Farrah” and later teamed up in a business that produced the NBC documentary.

Nevius is not seeking any money from Fawcett’s estate, his court filing states. The filing states any business decisions Nevius made were done in good faith.

Fawcett died at age 62 on June 25 after a three year battle with anal cancer.

Chaz Bono asks judge to change name, gender THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES Chaz Bono is asking a judge to formally change his name and gender.

The 41-year-old writer, activist and reality-TV star, was born a girl to Sonny Bono and Cher. He filed a petition to change his name and gender last week.

Bono’s doctor filed a declaration with the court indicating he performed a genderchange operation last year.

Formerly called Chastity, Bono has called the gender change “the best decision I’ve ever made.”

The filing was first reported by celebrity Web site TMZ.com.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for May 6 in Santa Monica.

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Bring the troops home Editor:

The Associated Press reported Saturday that the number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan has about doubled in the first three months of 2010 compared to the same period last year. In addition, there was a dramatic increase in the number of wounded, with injuries more than tripling in the first two months of the year and trending in the same direction for March. “Harder days (are) yet to come,” said Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The U.S. is about to deploy 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan.

Isn’t it time to end this disastrous war in Afghanistan — wasteful in lives and resources?

The Teabaggers, Republicans, and some Democrats decry what they see as monies thrown away for our health care. What about the waste that war brings — in lives and in billions down the drain for this American war economy?

No more war.

No way.

Bring the troops home, now.

Katherine McTaggart and Andy K. Liberman Santa Monica

Priorities, people Editor:

Let me get this straight. We’re subsidizing billionaires (“Council approves museum proposal”), but we have no money for schools (“City Council endorses school parcel tax”)?

What’s wrong with this picture, City Council? While we’re mired in the depths of a massive recession here in California, you’re giving — giving! — $2.7 million of our money to a billionaire to build a museum, and tossing in essentially free rent to boot? And then you have the chutzpah to endorse a new school parcel tax because the school district has no money? Really? Do you not see a problem with that? Perhaps that $30 per resident would be better spent on schools than as a gift to the perversely wealthy. And shame on Eli and Edythe Broad for even considering accepting taxpayer money from any municipality!

I’m tired of being asked to support new taxes, especially when the City Council just hands our money to people who already have far more than any of us could ever dream of — not counting Ah-nold, of course.

I’ve lived in Santa Monica for 25 years, and watched us go from a really cool, laid-back, familyfriendly beach town to a hedge-height obsessed, corporation-coddling city with an out-of-control, oversized community college, and frustrating, energy-wasting, traffic-choking obstacles that make travel within the city a hellish proposition at any hour of the day. Do you realize there are only three east-west lanes on “major” streets south of Olympic (two on Pico and one on Ocean Park)? It’s near-gridlock conditions most of the day, especially around SMC. I’m certain that curb extensions were the brainchild of a descendant of someone from the Spanish Inquisition.

Doesn’t anyone think anything through anymore?

This isn’t progress; we’ve become a tiny, congested version of Los Angeles!

Vote no on the parcel tax. Tell the City Council to use the museum funds for education!

Steve Schwab Santa Monica

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Marathon came to Santa Monica. Sunday was the day the cars came as well, and ate Downtown dead. Santa Monica was jammed solid (Saturday, too).

And the weekend before? Jammed as well, and really, pretty much every weekend you can name.

On any given day, you’ll find it hard to cram another car onto the Downtown roads.

Main Street often inches slowly nowhere.

Everyone who lives here or visits for a minute knows it.

Eventually, the light rail may help. It might drag some visitors to public transport but that’s not any time in the next four years.

It’ll hold back the growth of cars and bring more visitors on foot. And it’s a big shift in thinking about how to get people to and from Santa Monica.

We need more of that.

But really, we need bikes. Lots and lots of bikes. An explosion of bikes, and bike thinking.

Bikes imply a different way of living in our city.

Bikes imply a rather more untroubled, accessible at all times, street life. They bring a city together. They make retail accessible again. The mobility of a bike extends the distance shoppers will travel. You couldn’t introduce a bike culture into just anywhere in Southern California tomorrow. But you can in Santa Monica. We are ready. We just need the will.

Santa Monica is geographically perfect because it’s basically flat, the weather’s perfect all but a few days a year, and the city’s compact.

The issue is what comes first? The infrastructure? Or the people riding? Current consensus political thinking is we should point to the riders. Then, sir, we can move on to the infrastructure.

Well, there are plenty of riders already.

Count bike valet numbers at the Sunday Main Street Farmers’ Market; 400, 600, or more.

Count bike numbers on streets like Broadway any time of the day or night.

Riders just appear. Ones and twos, on every known version of ordinary commuter bike, going about their business because bikes are convenient.

Broadway has become a strikingly useful bike boulevard bringing residents and visitors to Downtown from the “far extremes” (what, four miles or so?) of Santa Monica and West L.A. efficiently and easily. It dramatizes what we miss everywhere else.

At the Santa Monica Pier’s centennial celebration, bike numbers were off the charts.

Bikes were tied up everywhere, to everything. Just like most days on Main Street.

Near Urth Café, bikes are locked to a chain fence, to electrical wires, wherever. Any special day in Santa Monica now has bikes as

the go-to option for many residents. Every day your see the Lycra exercisers, the hard core, the commuters, the tourists, the kids moving quietly around town, everyone.

Most people around town will own up to possessing a bike.

They’re just worried about using it often.

Biking should be easy and safe. At the moment in Santa Monica, it’s not really either.

It’s not easy, because there really isn’t enough bike parking; it’s generally not close to where riders need to go; there’s not enough bikes lanes; the lanes often disappear and certainly don’t join up; the beach isn’t connected to any other lane or Downtown; bike lanes aren’t quite wide enough. Signs don’t tell road users enough about bike users sharing roads.

Oh, the list goes on and on, most things fairly easy to address and at relatively small cost.

Safety is related to easy. Ride down Fifth Street any morning and it’s better than a seven coffee heart starter as car doors open without warning in the door zone; cars barge into the street; cars block Santa Monica Boulevard at the intersection; people step into the road without looking, drivers careen around wildly.

Safety is a function of accepting that bikes have a clear place on our roads and in our city and should be protected and encouraged. Again, relatively small steps will bring big results.

Because just riding a bike is not unsafe.

And bike riders are out there, even if hidden in plain sight. They are simply awaiting permission to rise up and start a new wave of street and city usership.

New York created hundreds of miles of bike lanes in the last 24 months. Bike numbers soared. Closer to home, Long Beach has signed contracts to build miles of bike lanes within eight weeks, as well as the first bike boulevard in Southern California. Long Beach!

Shouldn’t it be Santa Monica that’s first in the nation on street and urban issues?

There are 6,000 parking meters in Santa Monica and 10,000 parking spots in garages the city owns around Downtown. That’s a lot of conventional wisdom, investment and vested interest in the way it’s been done.

But, it’s time, time to make Santa Monica safe and easy for bikes, time to get a new urbanism going that stresses people and streets rather than cars and structures. It’s time to get Santa Monica businesses whole new markets, consumers and economic development. It’s time to chart new ideas into the city and quickly. Time indeed.

It’s bike time.

RICHARD MCKINNON is the chair of Bike It Day and an executive member of Santa Monica Spoke.

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Editor:

I am very disappointed to see the same liberalprogressive lies about the Iraq war and the reasons the U.S. chose to fight Hussein. Don’t you fact check your columnists? You should! When they repeat these lies often enough, weak minded individuals will begin to believe them. Jack can’t do math (see his column, “At sixes and sevens,” March 26). He is not funny. The only thing he failed to blame George Bush for was the L.A. Marathon traffic mess last Sunday!

Jerold Hartwell Santa Monica

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Back to Nature Reese Halter

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Spring brings salubrious cherry blossoms to life HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF VISITORS

come from around the globe to witness the spring majesty of Washington D.C.’s flowering cherry trees. This breathtaking event reminds us that trees are remarkable.

There are over 80,000 tree species and they’ve inhabited our planet for over 350 million years. They provide watersheds to supply drinking water to billions of people, protect cities from storm water runoff, and reduce heating and cooling costs to our homes and buildings by 40 percent.

Trees and forests are massive carbon dioxide warehouses, and in return they provide oxygen — enabling life on Earth. Trees yield some of the most potent cancer, coronary and other disease-fighting medicines known to humankind.

This year, the Washington D.C. Cherry Blossom Festival extends from March 27 to April 11. The magnificent white, pink and double pink cherry blossoms are nature’s way of ushering in spring and enticing people after a long, cold winter to explore the outdoors of our nation’s capital city.

The story of these exquisite cherry trees is a rich tapestry interwoven by visionary women, children and peace.

In 1885, Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, an American travel writer, photographer and naturalist, returned from Japan and first proposed to the U.S. Army Superintendent of the Office of Public Buildings and Grounds that Japanese flowering cherry trees beautify the banks of the reclaimed Potomac waterfront.

It took 24 years before Scidmore, the first female board member of the National Geographic Society, to finally realize her vision. In 1909, she wrote to First Lady Helen Herron Taft and suggested planting Japanese flowering trees or sakura — known in Japan as the exalted flowering plant. First Lady Taft graciously embraced the idea and saw it to fruition.

A gift from the city of Tokyo of 3,020 cherry trees, from cuttings along the bank of the Arakawa River in Tokyo grafted onto specially selected under-stock, arrived in Washington, D.C. on March 26, 1912.

The next day, First Lady Taft and Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese Ambassador, planted two Yoshino cherry trees on the northern bank of the Tidal Basin.

Incidentally, those two cherry trees are still thriving — 99 years later, a couple hundred yards west of the John Paul Jones Memorial at the end of 17th Street, SW. To commemorate this historic event, schoolchildren in 1927 re-enacted the tree planting ceremony.

Celebrating a half century The Santa Monica Playhouse is celebrating its 50th year of entertaining the masses.

So, this week’s Q-Line question asks: What is your fondest memory of the venerable playhouse?

Call (310) 285-8106 before Friday at 5 p.m. and we’ll print your answers in the weekend edition of the Daily Press.

A Cherry Blossom Pageant was created in 1940.

By 1947, the festival spanned two days and over 450,000 people crammed the Tidal Basin to celebrate the glorious spring cherry blossoms.

Each year, the National Cherry Blossom Festival officially commences by lighting an 8-foot high, 20-ton granite lantern, a gift from Japan in 1954 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first Treaty of Peace, Amity and Commerce by the United States and Japan of March 31, 1854.

In 1957, Yositaka Mikimoto, President of Mikimoto Pearls, donated a Mikimoto pearl crown used each year at the coronation of the National Cherry Blossom Festival queen on the night of the Grand Ball.

First Lady Bird Johnson accepted another generous gift of 3,800 Japanese flowering cherry trees in 1965, and with Mrs. Ryuji Takeuchi, wife of the Japanese Ambassador, re-enacted the 1912 tree planting ceremony.

Perhaps the most coveted of all the tree gifts over the past century arrived in November of 1999. Fifty trees were propagated from a 1,500 year old Usuzumi cherry tree planted by the 26th Emperor Keitai of Japan in 499 in the village of Itasho Neo, to celebrate his ascension to the throne.

Today, 12 species of flowering cherry trees or almost 3,800 specimens grace our nation’s capital city.

The vast majority are Yoshino cherries.

Their elegant, profuse, pale pink, almond scented, spring flowers fade to white and sometimes last on the trees for a couple weeks. Later in the summer, Yoshino black cherry fruit becomes an important food source for many songbirds.

Yoshino cherries line the Tidal Basin, West Potomac Park and the grounds of the Washington Monument.

The very attractive, double pink flowers of the Kwanzan cherries are found along East Potomac Park. They flower a couple weeks after the Yoshino cherries.

The National Treasure of Japan, or the 50 Usuzumi cherry trees, were planted in West Potomac Park.

From the cities of Seattle to San Diego to Macon, Ga. and arboretums from Brooklyn to St. Louis to Woodside, Calif. — Americans rejoice as Japanese flowering cherries bring warm smiles and the joy of spring to our proud nation.

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St. Monica’s Laguardia earns CIF-SS honor FROM ROUNDUP PAGE 1 ond team.

The honors cap a season that saw both teams make it to the CIF-SS Division 1A finals. The girls won the title — a first in the program’s history — and the boys lost to Leuzinger. Each team was selected for the CIF State Championships, with the girls advancing to the South Regional semi-finals before losing to Clovis West. The boys advanced to the second round before losing to eventual state champion Westchester.

“I guess you can call us lucky,” a modest Verdugo said last week, before Monday’s announcement was made. He had heard second-hand the results of the selections and wanted to keep it quiet until it became official. “This is what happens when you make a commitment to the team.”

The consummate teammate, the UCLAbound Lemberger said that team awards were more important to her, but admitted

that the individual honors were “pretty cool.”

James Hecht, the boys head coach, sees the awards as the fruit of his 10 seniors’ labor. The starting lineup, consisting of entirely senior players, made the commitment to buy into Hecht’s system, bringing the team and coach the best results in his years leading the team.

“Great to see those guys get acknowledged for their four years of hard work,” Hecht said. “Those guys are homegrown.

They grew up together.”

ST. MONICA’S LAGUARDIA NAMED ALL-CIF-SS

Cory Laguardia, a junior on St. Monica’s girls basketball team, has been named to the All-CIF-SS Division 5A second team. She helped lead the team to a 15-14 overall record as the Mariners advanced to the second round of the Division 5A playoffs before losing to Campbell Hall. daniela@smdp.com

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Event could boost donations to education foundation FROM RACE PAGE 1 Cohen, who for 15 years helped promote the L.A. Marathon before Frank McCourt bought the race, said he’s met with multiple City Hall officials to discuss the idea. The City Council endorsed the concept of holding a half-marathon last summer, when momentum was building for hosting the L.A. Marathon’s finish line.

The bigger race has caused Cohen to postpone his plans — he’s now hoping to hold his inaugural race in the fall of 2011, instead of this year — but he’s optimistic his race, if approved, would benefit local schools and businesses and become a hit with runners.

“Once we get approval for it, I think the event will be kind of an instant classic,” he said, noting that Santa Monica is already a favorite training ground for runners in the region.

Though he lives in Mar Vista, Cohen, a marathoner himself, said he almost always runs in Santa Monica.

There’s no date set for a route proposal to come before the City Council, but the idea has its fans at City Hall.

“We’d like to see if we can make this work, but ultimately we have to have a route that our public safety staff can support,” said Deputy City Manager Elaine Polachek.

An initial proposal to use Pacific Coast Highway for the course, she said, didn’t pass that test. But, in coming months, she said City Hall staff will resume discussions about the half-marathon, applying lessons learned from hosting a portion of the longer race to possible plans.

While a half-marathon seems less ambitious, she noted only about 3 miles of the L.A. Marathon were inside Santa Monica, so planning a 13-mile event’s course entirely

WE’D LIKE TO SEE IF WE CAN MAKE THIS WORK, BUT ULTIMATELY WE HAVE TO HAVE A ROUTE THAT OUR PUBLIC SAFETY STAFF CAN SUPPORT.” Elaine Polachek Deputy City Manager

within an 8-square mile city is in some respects more challenging.

Linda Gross, the executive director of the Santa Monica-Malibu Education Foundation, said the proposal has come at a time when her organization has an acute need.

Donations to the foundation’s existing endowments — which fund academic and arts programs — have fallen off by 50 percent in the past year and a half, she said, making a possible fundraising partnership to launch a new athletic endowment all the more necessary. Sports programs at local schools could face steep cuts because of the district’s current budget crisis.

“We’re excited about it. We think it’s a great opportunity to have a really homegrown Santa Monica-only event that would kind of be all about community,” Gross said of the proposed race.

It would be “a great way to have an annual event that sustains athletics in our schools,” she said. nickt@smdp.com

Dragnets would mean lower cop costs FROM MARKET PAGE 1 thing that our Farmers’ Market staff was really concerned about,” she said.

Laura Avery, who supervises Santa Monica’s Farmers’ Markets, could not be reached Monday for comment.

Since the disaster in 2003, the Santa Monica Police Department has used patrol cars as barricades at the Downtown market’s entrances on Arizona Avenue and Second Street and sent additional staff to direct traffic during the twice-weekly event that attracts thousands.

While officials said that arrangement has provide adequate safety, they added the new dragnet system would bolster security and would save City Hall money in the long run.

With the dragnets in place, City Hall would be able to save the $172,000 per year it’s been spending to block off roads with patrol cars and pay for additional personnel for the Wednesday and Saturday Downtown markets, according to a report. After $42,500 in added Farmers’ Market staff costs and $5,200 for maintenance, the report said City

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Hall would save about $124,000 per year on operating costs.

Setting up the dragnet system is expected to cost $215,000, which the City Council would have to vote to include in the budget for the upcoming fiscal year, which begins July 1. If approved, Taylor said the dragnets could be in place by late summer or early fall. nickt@smdp.com

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The overture was made by his attorney, Sorrell Trope, who argued that his client will earn about $5 million this year and can’t tap credit lines to maintain Jamie McCourt’s lifestyle.

“If we look at this case, realistically, you can’t order Mr. McCourt to borrow money to pay support,” Trope told Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon.

Jamie McCourt’s attorney, Dennis Wasser, declined to comment outside of court. The hearing was expected to continue Monday.

While the couple is squabbling over money, the larger issue is whether the Dodgers are community property. Jamie

McCourt maintains she is the team’s coowner, while her husband argues a marital agreement between the two gives him sole possession of the Dodgers.

For more than three hours, attorneys tried to explain the couple’s lavish ways since buying the Dodgers in 2004. From private jets to staying at five-star resorts, the couple’s lawyers threw out a slew of dizzying figures that indicated they may have been spending beyond their means. Most of their assets are tied up in real estate, including Dodger Stadium and the land around it.

"These people have lived their lives with borrowed money,” Trope said. “They have to stop spending. This isn’t the federal government.”

Wasser said his client is entitled to the lifestyle she had during her 30-year marriage. He also said she has to spend about $568,000 every month on the mortgages and related expenses for six homes and one condominium — more than half of what she is asking from her husband.

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★★★★ You might feel a bit awkward with an associate. You might know certain information about this person that is not commonly known.

Emotions play into a conversation, perhaps causing a misunderstanding. Tonight: Catch up on someone's news.

★★★★ Your smile draws many different people, evoking different reactions. Others seem only too willing to cooperate. You wonder how and why, but don't think too long. Get a project off the ground. Others have different ideas; allow give-and-take. Tonight: As you like.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) TAURUS (April 20-May 20) ★★★ Pace yourself, especially after being unusually energized from a meeting or key conversation. Don't over-think a situation or conversation.

You could be making yourself more nervous or uptight than need be. Take a walk to clear your mind. Tonight: Choose a stress-buster.

★★ Take your time shoring up an idea. You might be overwhelmed by the many different ways you could proceed. Study the different possible courses, and then make a decision. You could be worrying way too much. Consider taking up yoga or some other stress-buster. Tonight: Do your thing.

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Speed Bump

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) GEMINI (May 21-June 20) ★★★★★ Others hit brick walls. You are able to bypass a lot of the problems by lifting rigid thinking. Tap into your ingenuity and ability to detach.

Never lose sight of what you want. Friends play a big role in your decisions. Tonight: Lighten up.

★★★★★ Others want to pitch in and help. If you can mobilize others' energy, you could be on cruise control. You get a lot of feedback. Play with different ideas before making any decisions.

Focus on an immediate issue, and you will hit a home run. Tonight: Where the action is.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

★★★ You cannot help that you are a homebody, but you are. Even at work, sometimes you are more focused on personal matters. Funnel your imagination into creating a more suitable, "homey" work situation. Brainstorm with an innovative person. Tonight: Order in.

★★★★ Accept a challenge head-on. You are able to help guide others as you take the lead. Your words might convey enthusiasm, if not the precise idea. Juggle different concerns. A family member has a lot to share if you are willing to listen. Make time for this person. Tonight: Up late.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

★★★★ Keep conversations moving. Avoid locking in on a problem. Given space and time, solutions will appear. You could be surprised by what someone offers. Financial options might appear to be a little too good to be true. Incorporate a walk or some other stress-buster. Tonight: Hang out with friends.

★★★★★ Keep reaching out for ideas and answers.

You see situations differently from many. Help open others' minds through a discussion. You will note that there is more rigidity in many people's thinking than you thought. Use care with spending. You easily might go overboard. Tonight: Follow the music.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

★★★ Your more possessive side emerges when dealing with others. You could be overwhelmed by all the offers that come up. People seek you out and want to pitch in. Don't get territorial or touchy. If you are overwhelmed, don't close down. Just ask for help. Tonight: Treat yourself on the way home.

★★★★★ Relate directly to one individual at a time.

You will accomplish far more if you do. Each person also will have a sense of your caring and concern.

Ideas about money and spending could be very different. Coming to an agreement could be close to impossible, so don't try! Tonight: Share over dinner.

Happy birthday This year, you'll have many opportunities to deepen key relationships. Though the bonds could be warm, keeping finances separate

JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: ★★★★★Dynamic ★★ So-So ★★★★ Positive ★ Difficult ★★★ Average

might be a smart move. As you evaluate the pros and cons of different situations, decide which ones you want to walk away from. If you are single, check out someone you meet with care, as appealing as he or she might be. If you are attached, the two of you need to agree to disagree and respect each other's differences. Let mutual respect become more predominant. LIBRA often plays devil's advocate.

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DEADLINES: 3:00 p.m. prior the day of publication except for Monday’s paper when the deadline is Friday at 2:30 p.m. PAYMENT: All private party ads must be pre-paid. We accept checks, credit cards, and of course cash. CORRESPONDENCE: To place your ad call our offices 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, (310) 458-7737; send a check or money order with ad copy to The Santa Monica Daily Press, P.O. Box 1380, Santa Monica, CA 90406 or stop in at our office located at 1427 Third Street Promenade, Ste. 202. OTHER RATES: For information about the professional services directory or classified display ads, please call our office at (310) 458-7737.

HOURS MONDAY - FRIDAY 9:00am - 5:00pm

LOCATION 410 Broadway, Suite B, Santa Monica, CA 90401

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